Description
First British edition of Charles Lanman’s Adventures of an Angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and the United States.
Octavo, xii, 322pp. Rebound in brown cloth, with original publisher’s cloth laid down on spine and front cover, title stamped in gilt on spine. Original cloth has some spotting and a few blemishes. New endpapers, untrimmed pages. Light toning to pages, intermittent finger marks and soiling to text pages. Light dampstaining to half-title, frontispiece and title page. Brief pencil notation on page 313. Complete with 8 in-text illustrations and engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. (Sabin 38915) (Westwood & Satchell, p. 130) A nice example.
Published the same year in Philadelphia with the title: A Tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada, but without the engraved frontispiece portrait.
